On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Florian Laws wrote:
> I there a way to "invoke" an Exim Filter File from an alias file?
No, but you can call it from a redirect router.
> I'd like to have a special directive with the filter file on the
> right hand side of an alias file entry, that causes Exim to read
> in the Filter File and continue as if it was found in a .forward
>
> Something like:
>
> user: use-filter:/path/to/filterfile
>
> I gather from the manual that the redirect router proceses filter code,
> if that code is the result of an expression in the data option.
> So maybe it can be done with some wicked string expansion?
If your file contains
user: /path/to/filterfile
you could try
special_filter:
driver = redirect
allow_filter
file = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/the/file}{$value}fail}
user = ????
You have to set some user for the filter to run as.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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